"You can't break a bad habit by..." - Quote by Mark Twain
You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.
More by Mark Twain
“when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.”
“When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.”
“What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.”